Shell concentrations as tools in characterizing sedimentary dynamics at sequence-bounding unconformities: Examples from the lower unit of the Canoa Formation (Late Pliocene, Ecuador)

Geobios

Volumn 35, Issue SUPPLEMENT, 2002, Pages 72-85

  Di Celma, C ^a   Ragaini, L ^a   Cantalamessa, G ^b   Curzio, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

High frequency sequence stratigraphy; Mollusks; Paleoecology; Shell beds; Taphonomy

Indexed keywords

MOLLUSC; PALEOECOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SHELL; TAPHONOMY; UNCONFORMITY;

CANOA BASIN; ECUADOR; MANABI;

BIVALVIA; CHIONE MARIAE; LINGA CANCELLARIS; MOLLUSCA;

EID: 0036978553     PISSN: 00166995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-6995(02)00049-9     Document Type: Article

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